Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. Hans Arp
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell. Hans Arp
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.
Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head. Hans Arp
Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order. Hans Arp
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.
I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing. Hans Arp
I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.
The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow. Hans Arp
The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it. Hans Arp
I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Hans Arp
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure. Hans Arp
All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.
To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing. Hans Arp
To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art. Hans Arp
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art.
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost. Hans Arp
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.
Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times. Hans Arp
Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness. Hans Arp
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art. Hans Arp
The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.
Born: September 16, 1886
Died: June 7, 1966
Profession: Sculptor
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